Increased Circulating Epithelial Tumor Cells (CETC/CTC) over the Course of Adjuvant Radiotherapy Is a Predictor of Less Favorable Outcome in Patients with Early-Stage Breast Cancer.

Curr Oncol · 2022 · PMC9857667 · PMID 36661670

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highly significantp = 0.003actually significant

A highly significant difference was found using the log-rank test based on Kaplan–Meier analysis ( Figure 2 ) ( p = 0.003).

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did not reach statistical significancep = 0.063so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

Further, the difference among patients with good prognostic estrogen receptor positive tumors did not reach statistical significance ( p = 0.063).

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